Two authors are collaborating with the Georgia Review, Avid Bookshop, the ACC Library and the Institute for African American Studies at UGA to share works from their culturally significant bibliographies. Aaliyah Bilal is a writer and director/producer of short films whose work focuses on the Black American Muslim experience. She originally came into the world of publishing with no agent or connections, having been acquired by Simon and Schuster after an open call for submissions and subsequently releasing her first short story collection, Temple Folk. Bilal’s forthcoming release is called Cloud Country: A Graphic Memoir. Kiese Laymon is both a writer and a professor at Rice University. He won the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Heavy: An American Memoir, which follows his early experiences of sexual violence, his suspension from college and his journey to becoming a professor. His upcoming release is called City Summer, Country Summer. A book sale and signing with the two authors will be held following selected readings from their books.
WHO: Aaliyah Bilal and Kiese Laymon
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Athens-Clarke County Library
HOW MUCH: FREE!
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